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Arts & Culture, Theater Review Mar 29, 2019
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ShawChicago goes out the way it came in, with The Doctor's Dilemma

The company ends its run with the same play with which it first debuted in 1994.
- By Albert Williams
- Tags: Theater Review, Doctor's Dilemma, ShawChicago, George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde, J.M. Barrie, Noel Coward, Gary Alexander, Timothy W. Hull, Daniel Millhouse, Monica Orozco, Mark Richard, Ruth Page Center for the Performing Arts, Recommended

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Feb 28, 2019
Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde is incandescent theater

Jamie Bragg and Heather Smith embody the love that dares to speak its name.
- By Jack Helbig
- Tags: Theater Review, Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, Promethean Theatre Ensemble, Brian Pastor, Moisés Kaufman, Jamie Bragg, Heather Smith, Oscar Wilde, Lord Alfred Douglas

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Apr 13, 2018
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A new production of An Ideal Husband humanizes Oscar Wilde

Ghostlight Ensemble relaxes the farce into drawing-room comedy.
- By Justin Hayford
- Tags: Theater Review, an ideal husband, north mansion, berger park, ghostlight ensemble, Alex Ireys, Halie Merrill, Richard Engling, Oscar wilde, holly robinson, gunder house, Recommended

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Nov 22, 2017
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Writers Theatre's joyful The Importance of Being Earnest has a dreadful spoiler

Just as in Oscar Wilde's time, there are whispers in the audience.
- By Aimee Levitt
- Tags: Theater Review, The Importance of Being Earnest, Oscar Wilde, Writers Theatre, Alex Goodrich, Steve Haggard, Jennifer Latimore, Rebecca Hurd, Shannon Cochran, Anita Chandwaney, Aaron Todd Douglas, Ross Lehman, Collette Pollard, Mara Blumenfeld, Michael Halberstam, Tom Robson, Recommended

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Jul 6, 2017
The School for Lies, At the Table, and seven more new stage shows to see now

A spritely update of the Molière classic and a revival of Broken Nose Theatre's hit are among this week's best bets.
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Alone, With Friends, Jonathan Rivera, Lee Peters, Ben Page, Chris Lysy, Henry Steinken, Broken Nose Theatre, Echaka Agba, Spenser Davis, Michael Perlman, The Bridges of Madison County, Michael James Waller, Kathy Voytko, Jason Robert Brown, Jeffrey D. Kmiec, Marsha Norman, The Chiraq Wall, Jeff Newman, The Gin Game, S.L. Colburn, John Reeger, Paula Scrofano, Luz Estrada, Mercy Street Theatre Company, Valeria Rosero, Dusty Wilson, Lysistrata, Macguire: Too Hot for TV, Matt Kappmeyer, Ryan Kappmeyer, the Annoyance, Runaways Lab Theatre, Olivia Lilley, The Portrait of Dorian Gray, Dorothy Humphrey, Jojo Brown, Peter Wilde, Oscar Wilde, Molière, The Misanthrope, The School for Lies, David Ives, The Artistic Home, Kathy Scambiatterra, Brookelyn Hébert, Ross Lehman

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Jun 22, 2017
Bette Davis Ain’t for Sissies, Jacques Brel’s Lonesome Losers . . . , and nine more new stage shows

A one-woman show to buckle up for and an intimate, retro revue are among this week's best bets.
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Bette Davis, Bette Davis Ain't for Sissies, Joan Crawford, Jessica Sherr, Howard Hughes, Drag Party Party, Bina Martin, the Annoyance, Julia DeFerdinando, Hell in a Handbag Proudctions, The Golden Girls: The Lost Episodes, David Cerda, Lady X: The Musical, Adrian Hadlock, Jacques Brel's Lonesome Losers of the Night, Theo Ubique, No Exit Cafe, cabaret, Jeremy Ramey, Randolph Johnson, Joshua Stephen Kartes, Fred Anzevino, Arnold Johnston, The King and I, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Laura Michelle Kelly, Jose Llana, London Assurance, Dion Boucicoult, City Lit Theatre, Oscar Wilde, Terry McCabe, Oak Park Festival Theatre, Macbeth, Julius Caesar, Matthey Fahey, Barbara Zahora, The Agency Theater Collective, Nautilina, Brian Foster, Sommer Austin, Anna Lucero, Brendan Duffy, Safe in My Own Head, Jenn Noyes, Natalie Moretti, Tempel Lizzipans, Tempel Farms, dressage, When the Fog Begins to Lift

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Feature Aug 31, 2016
The breathtaking Next to Normal and seven more new stage shows

BoHo Theatre's production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning show is musical theater at its very finest.
- Tags: Performing Arts Feature, Fefu and Her Friends, María Irene Fornés, Susan Sontag, Halcyon Theatre, BoHo Theatre, Next to Normal, Linda Fortunato, Collette Todd, Brian Yorkey, Tom Kitt, Donterrio Johnson, Ciera Dawn, Bradley Atkinson, Gilbert Domally, Peter Robel, Ellen K. Morris, Oh, Coward!, Noel Coward, Roderick Cook, Cameron Turner, Joanna Riopelle, Ian Rigg, Rose, Rose Kennedy, Chappaquiddick, Senator Edward Kennedy, Laurence Leamer, Steve Scott, Linda Leamer, Sister Cities, Colette Freedman, Chimera Ensemble, Rainee Denham, Norma Chacon, Ashley Neal, The Starlight Lounge Presents Bracket and Spootz, Susan Glynn, David Yontz, Griffin Wenzler, Andy Bolduc, Garrison Keillor, Thee Trinity, Polemic Theater, Albert Einstein, Osama bin Laden, Oscar Wilde, The Time Is Now (Starting Tomorrow), Under the Gun Theater

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Apr 8, 2015
Recommended
Remy Bumppo Theatre aces Tom Stoppard's test with Travesties

James Joyce, Vladimir Lenin, and Tristan Tzara mingle in a deeply smart, often hilarious production.
- By Tony Adler
- Tags: Theater Review, Travesties, Greenhouse Theater Center, Remy Bumppo, Ulysses, James Joyce, New York Times, Tom Stoppard, Will Shortz, The Real Thing, Vladimir Lenin, Henry Carr, Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, Scott Olson, Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Coast of Utopia, Jumpers, Hapgood, Lord Byron, Arcadia, Nick Sandys, effrey Cummings, James Huston, Greg Matthew Anderson, Kelsey Brennan, Meg Warner, Jodi Kingsley, Rachel Lambert, Joe Schermoly, Recommended

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Mar 4, 2015
The king is dead—but Lady Macbeth is alive and vibrating with power in Dunsinane

The National Theatre of Scotland returns with the U.S. premiere of David Greig's imagined sequel to the Scottish play.
- By Chloe Riley
- Tags: Theater Review, Dunsinane, Macbeth, Shakespeare, Chicago Shakespeare Company, David Greig, Darrell D'Silva, National Theatre of Scotland, the Royal Shakespeare Company, Roxana Silbert, Ewan Donald, Siobhan Redmond, Oscar Wilde

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Apr 23, 2014
Recommended
Down the rabbit hole with the House Theatre's Dorian

A visually strong adaptation of Wilde's Picture of Dorian Gray doesn't go far enough.
- By Tony Adler
- Tags: Theater Review, Oscar Wilde, Chopin Theatre, The House Theatre, The Matrix, Ben Lobpries, Tommy Rapley, Dorian, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Collette Pollard, Double Penetration, Sloppy Seconds, Ted Bundy, Cole Simon, Ivan Albright, Albert Lewin, The Tempest, Jeff Klapperich, Francis Bacon, Patrick Andrews, Alex Weisman, Joan Rivers, Recommended

Blogs, Bleader Sep 25, 2013
There's just one Lost Generation, but several others are being misplaced

Is journalism "losing a generation" a little too frequently for its own good?
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Media, News, losing a generation, Oscar Wilde, Chicago Tribune, Michelle Manchir, Zeina Abdul-Samad, Michael Hawthorne, lead pipes, WaitingForNextYear, Inside Higher Education, WalesOnline, The Age of Melbourne, Australia, the Telegraph, the Australian, Florida Education Association, Reuters, Dailykos

Arts & Culture, Performing Arts Sidebar Jul 2, 2013
Chicago shares its stage talent

The inaugural Three Oaks Theater Festival, in southwest Michigan, features three celebrated local productions, plus a premiere.
- By Jena Cutie
- Tags: Performing Arts Sidebar, Acorn Theater, Three Oaks, Michigan, The Three Oaks Theater Festival, The Selfish Giant, Oscar Wilde, Chicago Children's Theatre, Redmoon Theater, Blair Thomas, Michael Smith, Hans Fleishmann, Mary-Arrchie Theatre Co., The Glass Menagerie, Tennesee Williams, Justin Hayford, Brian Friel, Faith Healer, TurnAround Theatre, Saint Louis, Complicated, Poi Dog Pondering, Brigid Murphy, Milly May Smith, Pomegranate

Arts & Culture, Theater Review Feb 27, 2013
Recommended
Wartime hijinks, presented with Improbable Frequency

A comic verse musical set in WWII, Strawdog Theatre Company puts the bard back in bombardment.
- By Albert Williams
- Tags: Theater Review, Improbable Frequency, Strawdog Theatre Company, Kyle Hamman, Michael Daley, Scott Danielson, Jason Grimm, Eric Paskey, Sarah Goeden, Christina Hall, Joanna Iwanicka, Jordan Kardasz, Mike Przygoda, Lady Windermere's Fan, Arthur Riordan, Oscar Wilde, The Blitz, Ireland, Bell Helicopter, Conor Kelly, Sam Park, Dublin Theatre Festival, Recommended

Blogs, Bleader Aug 31, 2012
A headline of no importance

How the salome is made: the story behind a headline
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Media, News, Oscar Wilde, Pat Daily, Chicago Tribune, Ellen Jean Hirst, Library amnesty, "The Importance of Being Earnest"

Blogs, Bleader Jul 3, 2012
True independence: going back to the future

Two different articles about how we spend our time, but only one gets it right
- By Tal Rosenberg
- Tags: Independence Week, Variations on a Theme, independence, Tim Kreider, The Busy Trap, New York Times, Opinionator, Comment is Free, The Guardian, Owen Hatherley, Paul Lafargue, The Right to be Lazy, Oscar Wilde, Aleksei Gastev, Stakhanovites

Blogs, Bleader Feb 14, 2012
Seconds

Was Ambrose Bierce right about love?
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Regrets Week, Lit & Lectures, Books, Variations on a Theme, Love, Ambrose Bierce, Second time around, The Devil's Dictionary, Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan, cynicism, The Wasp, A Cynic Looks at Life

Blogs, Bleader Jan 27, 2011
Dinner & a Show: Thursday 1/27

Recommended events paired with nearby restaurants.
- By Sam Worley
- Tags: Chicagoland, Food Chain, Film, Music, Food & Drink, Jayhawks, Mark Olsen, Gary Louris, Hollywood Town Hall, Tomorrow the Green Grass, Flying Burrito Brothers, Byrds, Ken Callahan, George Drakoulis, the Vic, Sheffield's, Mars Williams, Liquid Soul, the Psychedelic Furs, Peter Brotzmann, Mike Reed, In the Context Of, Elastic, Cocina Boricua, A Doll's House, Chris Maher, Henrik Ibsen, Kate Cares, Stephen Dunn, Franks 'n' Dawgs, Joe Doren, Blackbird, Sixteen, The Social Network, David Fincher, Aaron Sorkin, Brew & View at the Vic, Wilde Bar & Restaurant, Oscar Wilde

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The company ends its run with the same play with which it first debuted in 1994.

Jamie Bragg and Heather Smith embody the love that dares to speak its name.

Ghostlight Ensemble relaxes the farce into drawing-room comedy.

Just as in Oscar Wilde's time, there are whispers in the audience.

A spritely update of the Molière classic and a revival of Broken Nose Theatre's hit are among this week's best bets.

A one-woman show to buckle up for and an intimate, retro revue are among this week's best bets.

BoHo Theatre's production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning show is musical theater at its very finest.

James Joyce, Vladimir Lenin, and Tristan Tzara mingle in a deeply smart, often hilarious production.

The National Theatre of Scotland returns with the U.S. premiere of David Greig's imagined sequel to the Scottish play.

A visually strong adaptation of Wilde's Picture of Dorian Gray doesn't go far enough.

Is journalism "losing a generation" a little too frequently for its own good?

The inaugural Three Oaks Theater Festival, in southwest Michigan, features three celebrated local productions, plus a premiere.

A comic verse musical set in WWII, Strawdog Theatre Company puts the bard back in bombardment.

How the salome is made: the story behind a headline

Two different articles about how we spend our time, but only one gets it right

Was Ambrose Bierce right about love?

Recommended events paired with nearby restaurants.

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